From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 29 22:23:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A2F037B71B for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 22:23:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.20.155.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2U6MG220055; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 22:22:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <007601c0b8e1$c42cda00$029b140a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: , Subject: Re: Load Averages etc. Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 22:22:15 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >What do the actual figures for Load Average mean? I know they are >CPU usage at 1 min 5? and 15 mins but what does a load average og >.6 or 1.0 or 1.5 mean? are they percentages? If so how can a load >average go over 1.0 ? ... The Load Average is the number of processes in the system run queue averaged over various periods of time (1 sec, 5 sec, 15 sec). Basically, it's the number of programs waiting to run. Anything over 3 indicates your computer is overloaded... --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com FreeBSD Cheat Sheets http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message